January 17, 2013

Homework:
1. Read to page 34 in the Clotee Book
Answer questions 11-13 on your worksheet. Be sure to embed the question in your response.

• 11. What does "jump the broom " mean?
• 12. Clotee knows very little about the "abolstines", but she knows one thing and that is good enough for her. What does she know?
• 13. Why does Mas' Henley only trust Aunt Tee to cook for him?

2. Science: Finish the gravity worksheet.


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Social Studies:
South America
Inca Food This link might be helpful for your travel journals.

Watch the Video Inca
Discussion Questions

• What do you know about the land, people, and history of South America?

• What large and powerful civilization existed in ancient South America?

• What is a quipa?
• Who is Init?

• How did the Spanish conquistadors change life for the native South Americans?

• How do scientists and historians learn about ancient cultures?



































Teacher Resources
Maps of South America

www.rau.edu.uy/universidad/iaeste/extranjeros/reception_booklet/images/south_america_

pol98.jpg

www.mongabay.org/images/neotropical.gif

www.gate1travel.com/south-america-travel/maps/mapsouthamerica.gif

Maps of the Inca Empire

www.millville.org/workshops_f/acker_inca/sam7n.gif

www.latinamericanstudies.org/incas/inca-map.gif

http://library.thinkquest.org/c005121/data/spain2_files/image003.gif

www.chincare.com/images/southamerica/mapincaempire.gif

A Glimpse of Inca Treasure, 1527-1532

www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/plaintexthistories.asp?groupid=853&historyid=aa87

Fall of the Inca Empire

http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/papers/white.html

Food Timeline—Inca Foods

www.foodtimeline.org/foodmaya.html#inca

Inca Agriculture

www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/328Fall98/incag.html